The Whelan's

Elizabeth the Camper

My girl is the brave one of the family, facing temperatures in the 30 degree F range to go camping for 2 days with her class. To make matters wet, oops I mean worse, it also rained on them the first day. Poor kids, they had to be so miserable. Alex and I spent the 2 days together bonding. Shopping and going out to eat at his favorite restaurant, CPK, or California Pizza Kitchen for those not in the know. Remember that place Krista? Anyway, back to camping. I volunteered Richard to be a chaperone, so he was none too pleased with me. Did he actually think I would camp out the first week of March, heck no! Takes two to make a child, takes two to be school trip chaperones, thank you very much. They weren't actually sleeping outside mind you, the cabins were almost luxurious from what I'm told. The entire 5th grade class from her school, which is quite small, went on the environmental camping trip. The theme of course was "How to Save the Chesapeake Bay". That is right up Elizabeth's alley anyway, she has always been the little environmentalist. She loves science and taking water samples was paramount to eating chocolate. Well at least for me :)
The camp ground was a whole 5 minutes from my house, at a huge waterfront educational
park called "Arlington Echo". Complete with classrooms and science labs. During the campout I received notice that Elizabeth was accepted into the college prep school that we applied for. Its call The Chesapeake Science Point School and goes up to 12th grade. As you may have guessed from the name, it has a heavy emphases on math and science. She was thrilled when she found out, as were here parents who were nervous wrecks wondering where to put her next year if she wasn't accepted. Public school was not option for her, she is way to "young". Well, I know that some of you are gonna be surprised to see a post so soon but hey, I have to keep you on your toes. You never know when I am gonna show up...

posted by Susan65 @ 10:39 AM